Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is booed by at the NAACP's
annual convention after he says he would eliminate Barack Obama's healthcare
legislation.

9:02PM BST 11 Jul 2012

The Republican presidential candidate was left looking visibly uncomfortable as delegates at the conference in Houston, Texas registered their displeasure after he promised to "eliminate expensive non-essential programmes like ObamaCare" – Mr Obama's signature health care reform.

Mr Romney's decision to address the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was considered either brave or foolhardy, since polls show that 90 per cent of African-Americans vote Democrat.

When the former Massachusetts governor pitched himself as an alternative to Mr Obama, America's first black president, he was also met with jeering.

"If you want a president who will make things better in the African American community, you are looking at him," he said, as his audience began to boo, before adding "Take a look."

Mr Romney has tacked to the right on immigration issues during this campaign, geeing up the conservative base of his party but, say analysts, at the cost of alienating black and Hispanic voters that could be crucial in what polls show is currently a neck-and-neck contest.